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DESTINOS is an innovative beginning Spanish program based on a a 26-week television series that premiered on PBS in the fall of 1992. The 52 half-hour shows of the series use the powerful appeal of a uniquely Hispanic genre--the telenovela (soap opera)--to make language and culture come alive. The situation and context of each episode introduce students to the basic structures, language functions and vocabulary groups of Spanish that are presented in most introductory- and intermediate-level Spanish courses.

This Student Viewer’s Handbook to accompany Destinos is designed to help instructors and students use Destinos as a supplement in a wide variety of courses, at beginning, intermediate, or advanced levels of instruction. By using the Handbook, instructors and students will enjoy viewing the 52 half-hour episodes of the television series more and get more out of them..
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Imagine the transforming power of men coming together within your church to honestly examine their lives and take the courageous steps necessary to embrace authentic biblical manhood. That is the goal of Men's Fraternity, the three-year men's ministry curriculum developed by Robert Lewis.
The Quest for Authentic Manhood is the first in this series. Designed to help a man embrace a bolder and more noble concept of manhood, Quest also takes a man inside himself to consider the forces that are shaping or misshaping his personal manhood. In doing so, this 24-session study empowers a man to heal life-hindering wounds while building a more compelling vision of masculinity that will bless both his life and the lives around him.

Quest also fosters deep spiritual and emotional growth. This powerful masculine experience strips away the myths of manhood to reveal a man's true identity and pursuits. What's more, it's a proven way to help men find a real connection . . . with each other, with the church, and most importantly, with God.

Designed in a fill-in-the-blank format, this workbook allows viewers to be actively involved in following each of the 24 sessions. Also includes questions for small-group discussion..
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Joseph McMoneage is a "remote viewer" and former psychic spy for the U.S. Army. Presenting an incredible vision of our future through the year 2075, he covers world population, aging, crime, technology, environmental issues, and more, including a vision for the year 3000..
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For Tristan, the city dump was a treasure trove full of history He would take each sad, broken, and dirty thing apart to see how each could be made to tick, whir, or ring. Then he found the box. It was filled with lenses, a microscope, a monocle, a magnifying glass, and a Viewmaster What Tristan saw through the dark orbs as he clicked the viewer was like nothing he had ever seen before. He clicked more slowly, then crept into bed, trembling...

Afraid, Tristan tried to pull the viewer from his eyes, but he could not. He tried to look away, but he could not. Something compelled him to keep looking, to try--against his own wishes--to actually enter this thing, this machine.

In the morning when Tristan had not come down, his mom called him. There was no answer. She went to his bedroom, knocked and went in. Tristan's bed was empty, but on his desk was a box, its lid closed, its latch firmly locked. Which was curious... very curious indeed..
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FileMaker Pro 9 represents a significant upgrade over previous versions, with many new and enhanced features. These include support for external SQL (ODBC) data sources with supplemental fields, an enhanced Web Viewer, toolbar improvements, multiple script editing windows, and new calculation functions. In FileMaker Pro 9 Essential Training, instructor Cris Ippolite covers each of FileMaker 9's features in detail. He demonstrates how to build a database from scratch for a thorough understanding of FileMaker from start to finish. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.

Topics Include:

• Getting to know the FileMaker family
• Comparing flat files to relational databases
• Creating databases from scratch or from templates
• Using the FileMaker Web Viewer
• Finding and sorting data
• Creating and using value lists
• Importing and exporting data
• Understanding and assigning scripts
• Setting up accounts, privilege sets, and external privileges

Duration: 10.75 hours
On 1 DVD-ROM.
Price: $99.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Beyond the Box charts the revolution in television viewing that is currently underway in living rooms across the country From voting practices on American Idol and text-messaging on Degrassi, to online forums for connecting with other Buffy the Vampire fans and "Save-the-Show" write-in campaigns aimed at television execs, the power of the Internet has fundamentally altered television viewing. Americans no longer just watch TV; they participate in, lobby for, respond and relate to favorite shows and characters in an entirely new --indeed, unprecedented -- way. Once the domain of cult TV alone --think "trekkies" and "Xena Warrior Princess" devotees -- tele-participation has now gone mainstream.
Sharon Ross probes how the Internet's development has altered how television is made and consumed. She offers a fresh and innovative perspective that focuses on the shift in audience experience and how it has blurred the lines of established boundaries. Featuring discussions of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Lost" and "American Idol", Beyond the Box gives students and couch potatoes alike a better understanding of what it means to watch television in an era of profound technological change..
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Based on the popular Playhouse Disney TV show, this book follows the adventures of Mickey, Goofy, Minnie, Pluto and the gang.  The book contains three great Clubhouse stories that go from finding Goofy, to a bake sale, to an overnight camping adventure. The book also comes with a Mickey Mouse viewer through which the reader can see images of the scenes from the stories. Ten picture discs, each containing 4 images, fit inside the viewer.  As children read the stories and follow the exploits of Mickey and his friends, they can peer through their viewer and see exciting scenes from the stories.

 

Viewer has 3 fun sounds

 

36-page colorful large format storybook—prompts on each page tell readers when to insert disk to view exciting scenes from the movie as they read

 

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"Get a life," William Shatner told Star Trek fans. Yet, as Textual Poachers argues, fans already have a "life," a complex subculture which draws its resources from commercial culture while also reworking them to serve alternative interests. Rejecting stereotypes of fans as cultural dupes, social misfits, and mindless consumers, Jenkins represents media fans as active producers and skilled manipulators of program meanings, as nomadic poachers constructing their own culture from borrowed materials, as an alternative social community defined through its cultural preferences and consumption practices.

Written from an insider's perspective and providing vivid examples from fan artifacts, Textual Poachers offers an ethnographic account of the media fan community, its interpretive strategies, its social institutions and cultural practices, and its troubled relationship to the mass media and consumer capitalism.Drawing on the work of Michel de Ceteau, Jenkins shows how fans of Star Trek, Blake's 7, The Professionals, Beauty and the Beast, Starsky and Hutch, Alien Nation, Twin Peaks, and other popular programs exploit these cultural materials as the basis for their stories, songs, videos, and social interactions.

Addressing both academics and fans, Jenkins builds a powerful case for the richness of fan culture as a popular response to the mass media and as a challenge to the producers' attempts to regulate textual meanings. Textual Poachers guides readers through difficult questions about popular consumption, genre, gender, sexuality, and interpretation, documenting practices and processes which test and challenge basic assumptions of contemporary media theory..
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